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Hi everyone,
I just signed up and I need your help like big time!
Ok so I have been trying for the past how many month and nothing worked,. I built about 5 websites and none of them gets ranked well. I spent more than $1000 on lessons, ClickBank university and etc and nothing is helping. I recently started doing ppc. I first made an ad that takes visitors to my landing page and the conversion rate was 0% and the second was directly to my affiliate link which also had 0% conversion rate.

I know I am so bad at this but I have been working.
I tried adf.ly to build my list, I paid $40 and got 9 opt ins... And I am just about to go crazy. None of what I found online is helping and I really want to succeed at this! What do u guys advice me to do?? I am sure many here understand what it is like to be trying this hard and not succeed so please help me... Just tell me what you guys think I should do? What is it that works and what doesn't?

Looking forward to hearing from all of you, and thanks a lot in advance!!
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  • Profile picture of the author internetmarketer1
    I would recommend doing what you can to make quick cash. No need to worry about building a business or a list at this point. You need cash, right?

    Go to Fiverr and offer something for $5. Make $100 from that.

    You could go to iWriter and make a couple hundred in the next few weeks.

    This is a tough online world, trust me.

    At this point, try to find a way that makes you can income NOW. So IMO, try your best to make cash off of Fiverr or iWriter. It could give you some faster cash to come in. Sent you a pm.
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  • Profile picture of the author banwork
    As long as you focus on what you are learning, you will continually be able to improve the amount of money you can make online. What worked for me was learning a skill good enough to get paid for it and then doing the majority of the learning in the process of working for other people. You can choose to learn whatever you want and it sounds like you have already learned skills people would pay for on oDesk or Elance.

    Affiliate marketing is very difficult to get right. The problem is that seeing people who are doing it successfully is very easy but actually doing it yourself is very difficult. You usually don't see all of the people doing a terrible job with affiliate marketing.

    List building is also difficult to get started with because even if you make a big list, you may not be able to monetize it well. You risk spending a lot of money building something that may not be valuable.

    When you focus on learning and connect directly with the people that could use what you have learned, you will have a great chance to make money online.
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  • Profile picture of the author Joseph Villanueva
    There are many ways to make money online. But Definitely the money is in the list whether your business is big or not.

    I suggest you learn how to start a list building business by having a website set, autoresponder, a free bribe or lead magnet to get the leads emails.

    While building your list, keep creating your blog and brand presence everywhere!

    From youtube, social media and doing seo optimized blog posts.

    Then integrate your blog with your list through relationship and value attraction marketing.

    This is what I do myself and my students.

    Hole this helps

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    • Profile picture of the author seoboyz01
      Hi,

      Can you provide me your websites and the keywords list you are targeting. I will analyze the sites and let you know how to rank them.

      May be you are doing it wrong.
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    • Profile picture of the author cashnow1
      Welcome to the Forum.

      We all had to start somewhere. And, it sounds to me you are going through the same growing pains that the majority of us have gone through. Trying this and that looking for and expecting immediate "positive" results.

      To be honest... it ain't that easy.

      My suggestion for you would to decide which business model you want to focus on. (list building, blogging, ppc, etc.) Pick one and then give that model your undivided attention.

      We're all guilty of chasing the next "shiny object" that promises instant results.

      Well, you will get instant results, they may not be the results that you wanted. You will need to adjust and refine the method you choose, until you finally figure out what works.

      You will not be able to put together a profitable online business jumping from one marketing strategy to the next. You will need to focus on just one method.

      Once you decide which model you want to follow there is enough information in treads right here on the forum. Do a search and you will find a wealth of information.
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  • Profile picture of the author JensSteyaert
    I would suggest to stay focused on just one method, not try a number of different methods without succeeding any of them.

    That being said, here's a solid method that works:
    - Set up a funnel: squeeze page to capture email address with an offer in the backend.
    - Create a follow up sequence providing value to your subscribers and build a relationship.
    - Promote offers every now and then to your list.

    Important things to take note of:
    - Send only targeted traffic to your capture page.
    - Promote only high converting offers to your list, in other words, don't promote crap.

    If you're trying ppc then always make sure to capture people's email address and building a solid funnel. After that it's just a matter of sending targeted traffic and testing and tweaking your funnel until it's profitable.

    Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author Stuart Walker
    Pick a proven online business model that's tried and tested it and run with it till you see success.

    I.e. blogging, info product creation, selling services, ecommerce etc.

    Don't let your business be reliant on SEO traffic because as you've found out there's no guarantee Google will ever rank your site and even if they do they can take it away at ANY time.

    Any business that's one algorithm change away from bankruptcy isn't a real business.

    PPC can be hard unless you have money to spare. Seems like you don't so stay clear for now.

    If your landing page isn't converting then it probably isn't very good - look at a landing page in your niche that you know works and build something similar.

    Sending cold traffic direct to affiliate offers usually results in poor / non existent conversion rates as affiliate marketing requires trust and relationship to be really successful.

    AdFly traffic is junk. It's not worth trying to build a list with it. You need quality traffic if you want subscribers who actually open, read, and click emails.
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  • Profile picture of the author alvinhy
    First of all, stop paying money to buy get rich quick schemes.

    Focus on what you are doing, setup a content plan, then set up a traffic plan.

    Give the most value to your readers. Look at your competitors and see what they are doing but do yours better giving more value.
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  • Profile picture of the author aaaa33030
    If you're not good at internet marketing at the moment that you can make free money at microworkers
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  • Profile picture of the author graceemily
    Welcome this forum. I am sure you are in right place. Here you will be able to get many suggestion from experts. Here I would like to suggest you to do some SEO work on your sites. you should choose the do-follow back link. because the do-follow link increase both traffic & page rank. You need PR.
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  • Profile picture of the author travlinguy
    Your problem is you don't stay with anything long enough. The solution is to pick something you personally like/enjoy/love/have interest in, etc., and market that. And stay with it. Good luck.
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